There haven't been any negotiations ongoing since May of 2022 and that's quite a long time to have not been discussing the end game at the moment. Neither side really seems to be genuinely interested in negotiating both sides are going to try their hands at an offensive sometime between now and the summer before any you know change in that calculation comes to pass. I think Putin looks at this war and goes over the long run I just have a bigger country a bigger army I can wear out this storm and gradually get to an outcome that I find acceptable, says Peter Bergen.
To mark a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Galen Druke brings back two experts who first joined the podcast when the war began. Samuel Charap is a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and author of the book “Everyone Loses: The Ukraine Crisis and the Ruinous Contest for Post-Soviet Eurasia.” James Acton is a physicist and co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Together they describe why the war has not turned out as originally expected, what the risks of escalation are today and how the conflict might come to an end.